What is Evolving Masculinity

Evolving masculinity refers to a shift away from rigid, traditional ideas of what it means to be a man — toward a more conscious, inclusive, emotionally attuned, and integrated expression of masculinity.

It recognises that masculinity is not a fixed identity or performance, but a living, evolving experience shaped by inner growth, cultural change, and relational awareness.

Find your balance within the polarities of life and the world, and connect with courage and strength to your inner core and life force.

Who This Program Is For

• Leaders and Entrepreneurs who want to connect purposefully to their inner core for greater outer impact

• Men who seek deeper authenticity in their lives and relationships.

• Men ready to challenge outdated masculine norms.

• Men curious about emotional mastery, conscious leadership, and inner freedom.

Program Structure

Each weekly session combines learning, experience, practice, and reflection. You’ll be part of a brave, and supportive brotherhood where your voice matters, where you will be truly witnessed, heard and respected.

Key Program Elements

Rise to the Challenge: Bring a personal or professional challenge you want to work on and integrate it through the sessions.

Action Learning: Bring insights from each session into your daily life and reflect on the impact.

Coaching Clinic: Participate in group coaching circle and experience a creative, feedback-rich environment

Session Overview

Session 1: Awakening Your Inner Voice

• Theme: Why connecting to your inner voice matters

• Introduction: Group agreements, personal storytelling, Rise to the Challenge introduction.

• Method: Socratic Dialogue: What does “voice” mean to you?

• Objective: Set personal intentions and identify the voice you want to embody.

Session 2: Deep Listening, Deep Speaking

• Theme: Listening to yourself, Listening to others

• Method: Socratic Interviews + Liberating Structures

• Key Activities: Active listening practices, sharing and mirroring

• Objective: Cultivate awareness of inner and outer dialogue.

Session 3: Emotions as Messengers

• Theme: Recognising, Embracing, and Communicating Emotions

• Method: Embodied exercises, Journaling, Breakout rooms

• Key Activities: Emotional literacy exercises; sharing impact moments.

• Objective: Build emotional fluency to speak with authenticity and vulnerability.

Session 4: Connecting to Your Why

• Theme: Purpose, Meaning, and Inner Motivation

• Method: Deep questioning + Purpose mapping.

• Key Activities: Visual mapping of personal purpose; storytelling around “why I’m here.”

• Objective: Anchor your voice in your deeper purpose.

Session 5: The Coaching Clinic

• Theme: Bringing Your Voice into the World

• Method: Participate in a Coaching Clinic using gestures, images, and generative feedback.

  Key Activities: Participate in a unique group coaching process experienc sharing generative feedback

• Objective: Activate and test your voice through supportive group reflection.

Session 6: Integrating and Rising

• Theme: Rest, Reflection, Renewal

• Method: Deep Rest method + Neuroscientific insights on recovery.

• Key Activities: Guided Deep Rest experience; harvesting learning; action planning.

• Objective: Embed your learning and step forward with renewed energy and commitment.

Facilitated by Rudy de Waele & Dave Pendle

About Rudy de Waele

Unconditional Men founder Rudy de Waele has spent his life exploring the frontiers of innovation and paradigm shifts, bridging diverse ecosystems to foster collaborative growth across art, culture, music, technology, business, regeneration, and leadership development.

Today, Rudy is a thought leader, facilitator, and visionary dedicated to guiding entrepreneurs and business leaders toward a conscious, balanced approach to leadership. Rooted in core values - acting out of love over fear, respecting people and the planet, fostering regeneration, innovation, co-creation, and community-his work challenges outdated norms and inspires a new paradigm of leadership defined by courage, compassion, and authenticity.

Through transformative retreats, workshops, online circles and courses, Rudy crafts learning spaces for dialogue, reflection, and growth. He empowers leaders to embrace a path of self-discovery and impactful, regenerative leadership, always guided by a commitment to positive societal and planetary change.

About Dave Pendle

Dave Pendle is a writer, and facilitator who creates transformative spaces for deep inquiry, emotional intelligence, and embodied change. Through his Phenomenal Conversations series, and group facilitation, he helps individuals and communities navigate complexity, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and engage with the world from a place of integrity, clarity, and imagination. Dave's strength lies in his ability to ask profound, catalytic questions, sense the deeper currents in a group or conversation, and hold space for subtle yet powerful shifts in perspective and presence.

Previously, Dave experienced a nearly thirty year career in the United Kingdom, carrying out non-profit work, largely with excluded children and young adults. This ranged from front facing service delivery, to project management and quality improvement to innovation and workforce development. Achievements included whole service restructuring and redevelopment, multiple million pound project delivery, pioneering a social work education unit, organising national and international conferences.

About Unconditional Men

Unconditional Men is a platform and community for evolutionary men. It empowers authentic leadership transformation in service to the regeneration of our communities and the world. We envision a world where men play a vital role in shaping sustainable, inclusive, and collaborative societies. We nurture self-leadership, emotional intelligence, and vulnerability as the foundation for courageous, balanced, compassionate, and action-driven leadership.

Our mission is to create safe and brave spaces for men to unite, share, and grow - fostering personal development, community well-being, and authentic leadership. Through learning programs, sharing circles, and retreats, we empower men to lead with open hearts and purposeful action, supporting individual and collective transformation.

Why Unconditional Men?

1. At the intersection of inner work and systemic change
Unlike traditional men’s leadership programs focusing primarily on performance, career, or external leadership skills, Unconditional Men starts from the inside. It invites men (and those who lead with a balanced masculine and feminine energy) to explore the inner terrain of emotions, belief systems, and identity as a pathway to lead with integrity and regenerative impact.

2. A conscious evolution of masculinity
Rather than "fixing men" or reinforcing outdated roles, Unconditional Men fosters an integrated and embodied masculinity, rooted in wholeness, not dominance; in curiosity, not control. It's about reclaiming the power of presence, vulnerability, and courage to create more inclusive and balanced systems.

3. Inclusive and future-facing
Unconditional Men is open to all genders, not just as allies but as co-creators in reshaping how we relate to masculinity and leadership. This mixed-circle approach is rare and powerful in the men’s work space, making it uniquely relevant in today's interconnected and evolving world.

4. Regenerative, not just transformational
Inspired by regeneration and systems thinking, the work goes beyond personal healing to activate leaders who can restore, co-create, and steward a more life-affirming culture - in business, community, and beyond.

5. Soulful, somatic, and strategic
Through retreats, courses like Cathartic Leadership, Evolving Masculinity, Open Circles and Masterclasses, Unconditional Men weaves together deep emotional work, body-based practices, and visionary thinking - integrating heart, body, and mind into a new kind of leadership education.

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